Diagnostic Ventilating Bronchoscopy

Pulmonary diagnostic procedures: bronchoscopy.

Bronchoscopy is currently the most commonly employed invasive procedure in the practice of pulmonary medicine. Both the rigid and flexible bronchoscopes are used to diagnose and treat various pulmonary disorders, in children the main diagnostic indications include infections, diffuse lung diseases, and airway problems. The bronchoscope is used too in application of laser therapy, placement of a...

Bronchospirometry during diagnostic bronchoscopy.

'From the SIayo Clinic and SIayo Foundation: Division of Thoracic Diseases and Internal Medicine (Dr. Sanderson) and Department of Anesthesiology ( Dr. Dawson ) . Mayo Graduate School of SIedicine (University of SIinnesota), Rocliestttr: Resident in Anesthesiology ( Dr. Wang ). Presented at the 36th Annual Sleeting, Anierican College of Chest Physicians, Los Angeles, Octolxr 25 to 30, 1970. tec...

Application of Ventilating-Bronchoscopy-Adaptor by Fusing a Laparoscopic Trocar during Bronchial Thermoplasty under General Anesthesia.

Cardiac arrest induced by tension pneumothorax during ventilating bronchoscopy -A case report-

Tension pneumothorax during ventilating bronchoscopy for foreign body removal is a rare but life-threatening complication. The authors present a case of cardiac arrest caused by tension pneumothorax in a 9-month-old girl who underwent ventilating bronchoscopy for foreign body (peanut) removal. Tension pneumothorax was due to tracheobronchial lacerations caused by a bronchoscope. The patient was...

Electromagnetic navigation diagnostic bronchoscopy and transbronchial biopsy.

Chest Physicians members (in the Chest Infections and Critical Care Network) in 2004 to elucidate which of these admission guidelines and diagnostic criteria are utilized in practice. The first questionnaire asked physicians which of the following ICU admission criteria they use: American Thoracic Society (ATS) 1993 and 2001,1 British Thoracic Society (BTS) CURB or CURB-65,1 pneumonia severity ...